Fwd: Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-17 Thread Ilya Martynov
Oops, forgot to reply to list. To: Eric Cholet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: evil scripts kill the server... From: Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:09:17 +0200, Eric Cholet [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: EC Yes, please explain how careless programming practice can make root

Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-17 Thread Eric Cholet
--On Wednesday, October 16, 2002 19:48:33 +0100 Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Joerg Plate wrote: Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? Yes, I'm afraid it is. How? For

evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Joerg Plate
Moin, moin although it never happened to me i have to fight some rumours. Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? (I doubt it) -- I'm working on it. http://Patterner.de

Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Per Einar Ellefsen
Hi Joerg, At 18:06 16.10.2002, Joerg Plate wrote: although it never happened to me i have to fight some rumours. Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? (I doubt it) It depends on what wrong thing you do. mod_perl gives a great

Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread dom
although it never happened to me i have to fight some rumours. Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? (I doubt it) It depends on what wrong thing you do. In fact the worse you can do is to kill one of the mod_perl

Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Joerg Plate wrote: although it never happened to me i have to fight some rumours. Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? (I doubt it) Yes, I'm afraid it is. 73, Ged.

Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Joerg Plate
Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? Yes, I'm afraid it is. How? -- I'm working on it. http://Patterner.de

Re: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Joerg Plate wrote: Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? Yes, I'm afraid it is. How? For example by swallowing all the memory, by consuming all the CPU, and of course by making root

RE: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Joe Breeden
-Original Message- From: Ged Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:49 PM To: Joerg Plate Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: evil scripts kill the server... Hi there, On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Joerg Plate wrote: Is it true that you can kill

RE: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Joe Breeden wrote: You are making it sound like these problem are unique to mod_perl when they are not. I didn't think I was doing that. I didn't mean to. I have no axe to grind here, and I use mod_perl a great deal. It has never let me down (although I